The second novel in the Lincoln Lawyer series starts off with protagonist Mickey Haller, Jr. in rough shape. He’s been out of commission since the events of the first novel left him with an addiction to pain pills. Now out of rehab, Haller is weighing a return to the courtroom when he’s gift-wrapped a present he would rather not have. His colleague Jerry Vincent has been murdered, shot dead in his car, and it turns out that he had written a provision in his will […]

It’s fairly normal to get book recommendations from TikTok these days, I suppose, but maybe not quite in the way that I did. Sensing some primal need in me for courtroom drama, my algorithm has been steadily feeding me clips from Netflix’s TV adaptation of The Lincoln Lawyer for weeks. In every clip I’ve seen thus far, the protagonist gets his client off with some slick legal trick, exasperating judge and prosecutor alike. It’s not exactly reinventing the wheel, premise-wise, but the execution seemed especially […]